Scanner machine no longer available?

[bear]

I've returned to playing PA after a break - perhaps a year - and whilst I used to use the scanner machine I can no longer find it. I found an article on the 'pedia saying that it was part of the Island Bound DLC. Have Paradox stopped it being available to us without the add-ons?
If so, does anyone know if there's a functionally similar mod?

PS. Is it just my perception, or is it more difficult to keep the cash flow balanced?

[Barrotes]

Originally posted by bear:

I've returned to playing PA after a break - perhaps a year - and whilst I used to use the scanner machine I can no longer find it. I found an article on the 'pedia saying that it was part of the Island Bound DLC. Have Paradox stopped it being available to us without the add-ons?

I have the same question. :(

[Fifnaril]

Hello!
The Scanner Machine will be under the utility tab, and you have to research surveillance to see them in the list.

[msl]

Originally posted by Fifnaril:

Hello!
The Scanner Machine will be under the utility tab, and you have to research surveillance to see them in the list.

Hello,

do I need DLC? I researched everything, but still without scanner.

Thanks.

[bear]

Originally posted by Mental_Geller:

Originally posted by Fifnaril:

Hello!
The Scanner Machine will be under the utility tab, and you have to research surveillance to see them in the list.

Hello,

do I need DLC? I researched everything, but still without scanner.

Thanks.

Agreed. All research done, no scanner machine. Not under utilities or objects.

[Shiek2709]

Same problem here. I have only the psych warden dlc but the scanner machine is no longer found. I've done all the research, still not there. I definitely used it in older Save-Games, why is it gone?

[XDelphi]

I believe scanner is exclusive to island bound DLC, evidenced by the fact that filtering island bound content in items brings up the scanner monitor/controller. So sorry guys, think that the scanner is Island bound exclusive. However, so far I've found them spectacularly useless, effectively on par with (or worse than) a good metal detector/dog setup, so you're not really missing much!

[Shiek2709]

Originally posted by XDelphi:

I believe scanner is exclusive to island bound DLC, evidenced by the fact that filtering island bound content in items brings up the scanner monitor/controller. So sorry guys, think that the scanner is Island bound exclusive. However, so far I've found them spectacularly useless, effectively on par with (or worse than) a good metal detector/dog setup, so you're not really missing much!

Thanks for your quick answer. I don't know why I could use it before without the DLC, but I'm glad to hear that I'm not missing so much ;)

[primeinsurrection]

Originally posted by XDelphi:

I believe scanner is exclusive to island bound DLC, evidenced by the fact that filtering island bound content in items brings up the scanner monitor/controller. So sorry guys, think that the scanner is Island bound exclusive. However, so far I've found them spectacularly useless, effectively on par with (or worse than) a good metal detector/dog setup, so you're not really missing much!

Just because they do not detect metal does not mean they are useless. They are added to real life jails and prisons at reception. They scan bodies for drugs. In game, this keeps the inmates from becoming violent, picking up criminal behaviors, and prevents addictions. Its a very tactical component of the game that one could argue is even more useful than metal detectors.

[XDelphi]

Originally posted by primeinsurrection:

Originally posted by XDelphi:

I believe scanner is exclusive to island bound DLC, evidenced by the fact that filtering island bound content in items brings up the scanner monitor/controller. So sorry guys, think that the scanner is Island bound exclusive. However, so far I've found them spectacularly useless, effectively on par with (or worse than) a good metal detector/dog setup, so you're not really missing much!

Just because they do not detect metal does not mean they are useless. They are added to real life jails and prisons at reception. They scan bodies for drugs. In game, this keeps the inmates from becoming violent, picking up criminal behaviors, and prevents addictions. Its a very tactical component of the game that one could argue is even more useful than metal detectors.

While I understand your interpretation, this wasn't quite what I meant. It was more that I see (apart from the immersion of having an item replicating RL prisons and as a function to cut down on contraband) very little if any improvement to incoming contraband versus having metal detectors and dogs. I appreciate their RL application, and that in some prison designs they may be more beneficial, however I was only really trying to assure OP that their function is more that achievable with or without DLC that adds scanners. Hope this makes sense!

[bear]

Thanks for the responses folk. I use double fencing, dogs and metal detectors in all the right places and still get plagued by contraband. It's just tedious. At some point they must have tweaked things to prevent those without the DLC from accessing the scanner. Perhaps they saw it as a way of enticing us in. Whilst I like the game I'm not such a fan that I'm going to start investing in the add-ons. The game is too bugged. Anyhow, thanks again.